Recently there has been a considerable increase in fraudulent emails. Most of these fraudulent emails use a technique called "phishing".
Phishing is a technique where the email sender pretends to be a legitimate enterprise and requests information from the email recipient. As a general rule of thumb, any email that asks you to provide personal information is almost invariably a fraud.

These emails may appear to be from legitimate companies like eBay, PayPal or a bank. They may well look very real since they often use the logos of the companies they are pretending to be. They will very often say something is amiss with your account and you need to provide additional personal information or security verification. Don't be fooled! Once again, if you are being asked to provide personal information in an email it is almost invariably a fraud, even if it looks to be real!

If you are suspicious of any email you should contact the organization or business the email appears to be from. Let them know about these illegal activities so they can build a file on the perpetrators and hopefully give them their due.

Do not respond to these emails and do not click on any links in the body of the email message!